Archive for January, 2007

Interestingly enough, many super-advertisers skip this years super-bowl. P&G, Unilever, Microsoft all won’t show a single ad during the game.
There are some noteworthy quotes in that article:
A quote of John B. Williams, general manager-Windows global communications
We think we have a product and a message that stands alone. Borrowed interest is always something you look at, [...]

It’s this blogs 2nd Birthday today. Yes, Web Jungle is two years old. I am rather excited about this, as it doesn’t appear to me as if I have been working&writing on blogs for so long. I can still remember having started on the old blogger.com space: http://jungleweb.blogspot.com/
Then, when I noticed I would indeed continue [...]

Here is a curious initiative: Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life
Sweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said on Friday.
“We are planning to establish a Swedish embassy in Second Life primarily as an information portal for Sweden,” Swedish Institute (SI) [...]

Nicholas Carr has an interesting post titled: Honey, I shrunk the culture
In this post, he goes on about the fact that the new possibilities to deliver and consume content - i.e. through wikis, blogs, youtube-style videos, etc. - we all receive micro-chunked particles of information that increases our propensity to turn into ADD victims. That [...]

Some might have seen it already: I had some database problems over the last couple of hours. This was due to the fact that during some maintenance work the databases got lost (don’t ask!).
Unfortunately, my brothers and I were moving to a new, much better server over the last few months. This blog was already [...]

Ok, there goes the weekend. Guess I’ll be pretty busy - I just found out that you can watch all the videos of the “Digital Life Design” Day on the DLD 07 Media Website. See Marissa Mayer of Google speak about the billion dollar bubble or John Naisbitt about “Mind Set!”, probably based on his [...]

Love it! Werbeblogger just pointed me to a cool siteGet a first life (go outside, membership is free).

And of course it lists total residents (6+ billion), you can get first life clothing for real dollars (at cafepress.com), in a 3D analog world, where server lag does not exist. Hhm, maybe I should try that sometime. [...]

On the Church of the Customer Blog is an interesting Post about CBS Subscription figures on YouTube.
in the first three months of having CBS content on YouTube more than 40,000 people subscribed to the CBS channel. Plus, it had tallied 75 million total views of the 700+ CBS-uploaded videos.
They calculate out the possible (!) longer [...]

This is an excellent truffle: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Excellent source of inspiration. Some visualisations are known, some are inspiring (at least to me). Here are the categories:

Data visualisation
Information visualisation
concept visualisation
strategy visualisation
metaphor visualisation and
compound visualisation

And the whole thing looks like this:

But you should really click through to the table (made in Flash) itself, [...]

A new Face2Face Interview is online at Adcritic.com. This time (Part 2) it is with Jeff Goodby. (Part 1 was with Alex Bogusky)

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A quick one: a list of executives, who blog, compiled on the NewPR Wiki.
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